The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-01-21
TALK ABOUT MEN.
Information and Gossip Regarding Persons
About Whom Things Are incidentally Said.

Capt. Jason H. Allen, who is the so-called la
Dor candidate for the United States Senate from
Indiana, is a citizen of Terre Haute and about
fifty years old. He is Of about medium height,
of slight physique. full aburn beard aud of quiet
demeanor. He was either born In Ireland or
came to America from that country when
child. He belongs to the Irish National League,
and was an enthusiastic and prominent member
of the national convention at Philadelphia, at
which the league organized. He was a
soldier. He lived in the South at the time of the
war, but came North in order to enlist in the
Union army. Heswas captured by the rebels
and held as hostage in the City of Vicksburg
at the time of the siege. He was associated
with Maj. 0. j. Smith on the Terre Haute Elk
press when that paper was prominent the
national organ of the Greenback party, il the
heydey of that patry, in 1874 and 1875.
and was \ vigorous and forcible writer.
He was afterwards chosen superintendent of
schools of Vigo county. Afterwards he
went in to the retail drug business with ex-
dissolved. and Captain Allen continues the bust
ness. In 1884, as the leader of the Greenbackers
in the Eighth congressional district, he tried to
have Greenbacker nominated for Congress.
John E. Lamb, the Democratic candidate cap
tured the convention and prevented the nomina-
ton, but Captain Allen and several other Green
hackers put up man named Compton, a sort of
Prohibition Greenbacker. There were at that
time about 700 Greenback votes in the district.
Lamb got about 500 of them and was elected
to Congress. In 1856 Lamb was again candi-
didate. Captain Allen succeeded in having the
Greenbackers lndorse Hon. James Johnston, the
Republican candidate, which, with the dissatis-
| faction among the Democracy, elected Mr..
Johnston. Captain Aliens influence is quietly
exerted. He is not ward-worker about town,
but Office manager and man of considera-
| bic ability and tact. He may be said to be an
educated man. though it is not the education of
| the schools. What he has learned is by read
| ing. Those who know him best call him man
| OF intellectual activity and force. He is not an
agitator in the common acceptation Of tneiterrl,
| but man of strengt tn Of character and good
| citizen.
! Representative James Fl. Kelly, of Boone, is
the first Republican Representative elected from
that county for six years. He is about forty
| eight years old. a level-headed farmer, and was
soldier in the Second Indiana Cavalry when his
| country needed him. He is not speech-maker
| but is good talker and clear thinker being
| we'll informed on all matters of current interest
| He understands parliamentary law, but does moi
make an offensive showing of this knowledge
He Is first-class business man, and a capital
electioneerer, Us his triumph at the last election
| would indicate.
Montgomery county sends to the House OF
Representatives, in Hannibal Trout, man Of
solid parts He is large farmer, cultivating
| six or eight hundred acres. He is Kentuckian
| by birth. Mr., Trout is not given to eloquence,
| but is a man of affairs. In Montgomery county
his name is proverb for hospitality.